Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes was last night found to have doped cyclists and was subsequently handed a one-year suspended jail sentence in Madrid.

Manager of the ONCE-Eroski team Manolo Saiz has been expelled from the Tour of Spain for cursing at a television reporters on live TV.

For a nation which gave birth to the greatest cycle race in the world, the French have had little to cheer about in the Tour de France recently.